"Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt."— Clarence Darrow

trading baptisms for baths

The Miami Herald reports that one army chaplain in Iraq controls a 500-gallon pool of water, and won’t allow soldiers to have access to it, during the water shortage the troops are experiencing, unless they agree to be baptized, and listen to an hour-and-a-half sermon and then another hour of bible quotes during the baptism itself.
” ‘You have to be aggressive to help people find themselves in God,’ he said.”
“He calls himself a ‘Southern Baptist evangelist,’ and justifies the war and killing with a verse from the Gospel of Matthew, which he often recites: ‘Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s.’ ”
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It’s too bad he’s a Baptist and has to immerse them… he could “aggressively help” so many more souls toward salvation if he would just take a water pistol around the camp and spritz anyone who looked unsaved.